From: "Roly Perera" <###@###.###>
Subject: Unclear specification of java.io.File.exists()
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 15:07:11 +0100
The documentation on this method doesn't indicate whether exists()
returns true if the File object represents a directory which does exist.
I would expect directories to be treated like other files, and therefore
for exists() to return true for a directory that exists...

EVALUATION
As the submitter suspects, directories are treated like other files; thus
exists() returns true if the directory exists. The documentation should be
changed to replace the use of "file" to "file or directory".